Our car park stopover was peaceful for the night but hot and uncomfortable with the mozzies. We take the autoroute to Vicenza. As we approach from south east we pass the Rotunda, a classic piece of Pallado's work set on a hill above the road. A few minutes later we reach the camperstop n the edge of the city. We have lunch and make our separate ways into the old town, starting at the Teatro Olympico. Its shaded gardens are surrounded by statues of athle...

Good sleep, woken by fishing boats unloading at 06:30. It is already 32C when we leave and the air-con is only just coping. We return to the camper shop as he sells rear light clusters for €58, when they are £85 in UK. One of ours is scruffy and corroded and N+G have one with a broken lens. We take the scenic route around the Grado peninsula, at first flat fields of maize then later large wetlands with lots of birdlife. Grado is a long, spread out tow...

From Izola it's a short drive to Koper, Slovenia's major sea port where we easily found parking. Last night the plan was that if we could park we would visit, but that has somehow been forgotten today, There is a short disagreement so we say forget it and drive on over a convoluted route to avoid the toll road until we Areach the Italian border on a bend in a country lane. We pass the urban sprawl of Trieste where we see the Wartsila factory with a number of ...

We wake to the continuous whistle of an oriel. The 19C AT 06:00 rises to 30C by 10:00. Just as we are about to leave at 11:30 Sofia arrives for work so it is another round of goodbyes. Our route takes us north on the 5029 with panoramic views over the lush valley. We stop for fuel and spend our last few Kuna on ice-creams. Soon we are approaching Slovinia. As we crest the top of a hill we see the sea, with a huge, flat area of pale ground below us. Win...

Nick starts the engine at 10:00 to leave, but almost before the brake is off a man in a staff tee shirt appears for another semaphore lesson. A few nods to let him think he's helping and we're out. We park in the motorhome parking and trundle down to the port. Outside the old gates is a market selling everything from phone covers to fruit and veg and the generic 'genuine Rovinj' souvenir straight out of a container from China. Inside it is quiet, with narrow ...